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Gun Statistics in Israel

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发表于 2-22-2018 16:38:11 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
Isabel Kershner, In Israel, Firearms Are Frequently Seen but Rarely Owned; A point of pride for [American] gun advocates, Israel has strict gun control. New York Times, Feb 21, 2018.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/ ... -mike-huckabee.html

Quote:

"In Israel, armed guards stand outside movie theaters and shopping malls, and off-duty soldiers go to the beach or the bar with an M-16 slung over their shoulders.

"In fact, contrary to the [American] advocates' arguments for more guns, Israel has strict gun control. * * * it [Israel] has little experience with the kinds of civilian mass shootings that have become the source of anguished debate in the United States.

"A 2012 study by Janet E. Rosenbaum, an epidemiologist at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn * * * She found that gun ownership was in fact far lower in Israel than in the United States. In the United States there are roughly 310 million firearms in the hands of civilians, nearly one for every adult and child. In Israel — which has a population of about 8.5 million, not counting about 5 million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza — about 135,000 citizens are currently licensed to own guns. Of those, 37,500 work as guards, according to the Ministry of Public Security, which issues the permits.

In Israel: "A majority of the licenses are granted for 9 mm pistols. The few licenses for automatic rifles are reserved for people who need them for ongoing security roles. Annual bullet supplies are limited to 50 per licensed individual, or 100 for security guards.

My comment:
(a) About the last quotation. It is odd. I have seen a few photos through the decades that shows Jewish settlers in the West Bank openly carry assault rifles.
(b) "The gun death rate in Israel is low by international standards: about two homicides per 100,000 people in Israel, according to Arye Rattner, a criminologist at the University of Haifa. Some years in the United States the rate has been four or five times higher.

Intentional Homicides (per 100,000 People). by UN Office on Drugs and Crime's International Homicide Statistics database
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5

The number for Israel (1 or 2) are for all kinds of homicides, not just carried out with guns.
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